Hi, I'm pretty new here but my little project is why I am here so I want to cut to the chase.

 

I have been doing pixel art for some time now, at least I stopped for a while to progress into the world of 3D but now I am back to working with Pixel Art due to a computer malfunction, I can no longer handle the 3D work but I am working with a lower end machine that can handle working with smaller 2D images. This brings me to my project...

 

I want to start a Pixel Art tutorial site, totally dedicated to providing pixel art tutorials for the hobbyists or curious indie developers. This will probably help those ambitious and dedicated programmers get more viable artwork created for their projects and help the indie community even if it's just a little I would love to see how well this site will do.

 

I have been trying to minimize the cost of the site so that I can keep the site going for as long as possible and actually afford to start it up, I am not the most fortunate person right now but I would love to get something done and this seems to be the most likely cause for me to get started on in my situation, I don't want to create this site to earn money to live off of, all that I really hope to achieve out of creating this site is to have provided a helping hand for those that are wanting to create their own pixel art whether it be for fun or to play around with in the game development field. With that being said I would LOVE if the site could at some point maintain itself at least financially, as I do not mind providing the unique content whenever possible. Right now I have more time than anything so this is another reason for me wanting to get it done. Where as after the next three to four months I may not have much time at all but at least the site will have enough of a foundation to live on through until I can find the time to create more content.

 

Anyway... Now you know a little more about my project, I hope to get a little help and I need some suggestions on how I may go about creating this site. I am by no means a web developer. I can design websites within Photoshop. I have had a hard time following along with most of these text based tutorials so I know very little about how to take my design through to the finished stage and I tend to learn best from seeing, like watching a video tutorial. Well I know there are some out there but I can't really tell which ones are realy worth going over and which ones are not until I have attempted to go through them. This is where I hope that you can step in and provide a little information and possibly some direction.

 

The site will for all intensive purposes be a fairly simple tutorial site, so I was thinking to create it from a html/css tutorial, but after a little research perhaps it is better to attempt to get a wordpress theme created? I like the idea of expanding the site via certain wordpress plugins at a later date, like having membership type things setup so that I can restrict certain pages from normal registered members so that I can have others setup accounts as tutors or something to this effect. For the most part this site will be free if I ever charge it will be a low price just to help keep the site a float but chances are I will implement a plan such as you pay a membership fee for the source files but all the tutorials are 100% free, outside of that I plan to just keep it free and hope that some donations roll in every now and then to help with the costs of running the site. Also a few ads will help for that too.

 

I would like to hear what all of you think and would greatly appreciate any help I can get in this little project. I have a small amount of funding for this project right now but when I have more money I have no problem in throwing it towards this site. I have had this idea for soem time now but I never actually had the time to see it through. Well I do now but I have much less money at my disposal so the timing kind of sucks but I'm willing to apply effort where it counts and attempt to try and learn the skills required to see this through!

 

 

Thanks in advance and I hope that someone can help out...

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